tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 23

PHYSICIANS: Medicare Issues New Smoking Cessation Codes

... but acupuncture cannot stick a permanent code.Physicians who are gearing up to provide smoking-cessation counseling to Medicare beneficiaries will find two new codes useful.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services introduced two new smoking cessation counseling codes: G0375 (...three to 10 minutes) and G0376 (...greater than 10 minutes). These codes are retroactive to March 22, when the smoking cessation demonstration began. Acupuncture Gets RVUs, But No Coverage The July update to the Physician Fee Schedule also adds relative value units for the following four acupuncture codes:   97810 - Acupuncture, one or more needles; without ...

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